Lonnie Donegan Quotes
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.
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I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
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Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.
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As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.
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The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden. It struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him that in this state of hatred his conscience becomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be.
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I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
